Canadians, Americans soo gala!

[Do]

I've actually been meaning to ask for some time but I keep forgetting. Can you tell each other apart based on accents alone? No references to Canada-specific or US-specific things at all during the convo just voices.

And I mean the most standard accents in both countries, none of those standout redneck accents from the south or New Jersey folks who keep saying coffee as "kawfee".

 

[The alchemist]

The Somali Canadians sound this goofy:

 

[Kisame]

I can sometimes hear their accent.

 

[Sophisticate]

To the untrained ear no one will notice a difference between the Standard American accent and what you hear in Canada. Unless it is a distinct regional accent which clearly stands appart. In Canada, Nova Scotian and Quebec accents maybe a bit more pronounced. Than say, Inland, West Coast or Eastern Ontarian accents. Also, Toronto has its own slang referenced as Metropolitan Toronto Slang popularized by Drake. It sounds horrible and is influenced by immigrant populations from East Africa, the Middle East and Caribbean. There are more accents in the US than Canada. Think Texan, Cajun, Midlands, Boston, various permutations of the African American Venacular AAV, Chicano, Midwestern, Hawaiian, Pacific Northwest, Maine etc.

 

[Celery]

Absolutely we can tell the difference. The American fobs try to imitate red necks when they talk. Canadian fobs don’t speak English and travel in groups for safety.

As for the non-fobs, the educated ones sound identical. The hood kids from US talk like AA while those from Canada talk like Jamaicans with Somali words mixed in.

 

[Celery]

To the untrained ear no one will notice a difference between the Standard American accent and what you hear in Canada. Unless it is a distinct regional accent which clearly stands appart. In Canada, Nova Scotian and Quebec accents maybe a bit more pronounced. Than say, Inland, West Coast or Eastern Ontarian accents. Also, Toronto has its own slang referenced as Metropolitan Toronto Slang popularized by Drake. It sounds horrible and is influenced by immigrant populations from East Africa, the Middle East and Caribbean. There are more accents in the US than Canada. Think Texan, Cajun, Midlands, Boston, various permutations of the African American Venacular AAV, Chicano, Midwestern, Hawaiian, East Coast dialects, Pacific Northwest, Maine etc.

That’s a brutal takedown of the Toronto accent. I also couldn’t stand it when I was living there.

 

[Keep it a boqol]

i’m canadian but ppl think i sound like i’m from america.

Alhamdulilah i don’t sound like a jamaican leprechaun

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

when I moved to the states they always used to ask where I’m from I never knew I had a accent until then

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

i’m canadian but ppl think i sound like i’m from america.

Alhamdulilah i don’t sound like a jamaican leprechaun

I never realized how unique the accent was till I came back to the hood wallahi

 

[Keep it a boqol]

I never realized how unique the accent was till I came back to the hood wallahi

yeha bro in some toronto hoods it’s ridiculous

 

[The alchemist]

This is an American accent in some insulated island in Virginia:

 

[The alchemist]

I never realized how unique the accent was till I came back to the hood wallahi

Not the optimal accent for a job interview, eh? That shit sounds like your credit is fucked up.

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

Not the optimal accent for a job interview, eh? That shit sounds like your credit is fucked up.

Are you sneak dissing ? it’s about professionalism obviously the way you talk to the mandem isn’t The way you talk to coworkers

 

[The alchemist]

it’s about professionalism obviously the way you talk to the mandem isn’t The way you talk to coworkers

Of course. But there is a level to it. Some of these niggas talk like it sticks to them like an odor. As Nietzsche said, if you stare at the abyss, it will stare right back. If you do something too much, that is you. You feel me?

 

[Sophisticate]

That’s a brutal takedown of the Toronto accent. I also couldn’t stand it when I was living there.

Even people who sound like that code switch in the workplace. No one with a white collar job will dare to speak informally in a work setting.

 

[Do]

Also, Toronto has its own slang referenced as Metropolitan Toronto Slang popularized by Drake. It sounds horrible and is influenced by immigrant populations from East Africa, the Middle East and Caribbean.

The fact that I live down under and that sh*t is the only Canadian accent I could readily recognise speaks to how bizarrely it stands out.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

I basically sound like a Jamaican leprechaun tbh

 

[himber23]

I can tell Canadian Somalis by their accent it's crazy, even other Canadians can tell

 

[Celery]

White Canadians sound different from Americans for sure. But in my travels to the US, people are shocked when they realize I’m from Canada.

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

The fact that I live down under and that sh*t is the only Canadian accent I could readily recognise speaks to how bizarrely it stands out.

The accents been around since the 90s/2000s it’s just social media wasnt around and only people really from these hoods understood it you can find videos on YouTube filmed in the early 2000s speaking similar to today